Method and system for facilitating selection of stored medical images
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating selection of stored medical images, the method comprising:
- (a) storing a plurality of medical images, wherein the plurality of medical images are acquired by a medical image acquisition device;
(b) for each medical image, storing settings of at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device used to acquire the image, wherein an acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device comprises a control that is manipulated in a process of acquiring the image to affect how the image is acquired, wherein manipulating the acquisition time control affects one or more of transmit, receive, and processing operations;
(c) receiving a set of acquisition time control settings used to acquire at least one medical image that a user wants to retrieve from the stored plurality of medical images, wherein the set of acquisition time control settings are selected by the user by manipulating the same at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device that was manipulated in the process of acquiring the at least one medical image, and wherein the received set of acquisition time control settings are at least some of the same settings used to acquire the at least one medical image; and
(d) based on the set of acquisition time control settings received in (c), automatically selecting a set of medical images from the stored plurality of medical images.
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Abstract
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for facilitating selection of stored medical images. In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of medical images are stored, and, for each medical image, the settings of at least one acquisition time control used to create the image are also stored. During image review, a user selects a set of acquisition time control settings, and a set of medical images is automatically selected from the stored images based on the selected set of acquisition time control settings. Other preferred embodiments are provided, and each of the preferred embodiments described herein can be used alone or in combination with one another.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating selection of stored medical images, the method comprising:
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(a) storing a plurality of medical images, wherein the plurality of medical images are acquired by a medical image acquisition device; (b) for each medical image, storing settings of at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device used to acquire the image, wherein an acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device comprises a control that is manipulated in a process of acquiring the image to affect how the image is acquired, wherein manipulating the acquisition time control affects one or more of transmit, receive, and processing operations; (c) receiving a set of acquisition time control settings used to acquire at least one medical image that a user wants to retrieve from the stored plurality of medical images, wherein the set of acquisition time control settings are selected by the user by manipulating the same at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device that was manipulated in the process of acquiring the at least one medical image, and wherein the received set of acquisition time control settings are at least some of the same settings used to acquire the at least one medical image; and (d) based on the set of acquisition time control settings received in (c), automatically selecting a set of medical images from the stored plurality of medical images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A medical image acquisition device comprising:
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a user interface comprising a plurality of acquisition time controls, wherein an acquisition time control comprises a control that is manipulated in a process of acquiring a medical image to affect how the image is acquired, wherein manipulating at least one acquisition time control affects one or more of transmit, receive, and processing operations of the medical image acquisition device; at least one storage device storing a plurality of medical images and, for each medical image, settings of at least one acquisition time control of the medical image acquisition device used to acquire the image; and computer-usable media storing computer-readable program code for automatically selecting a set of medical images from the stored plurality of medical images based on a set of acquisition time control settings used to acquire at least one medical image that a user wants to retrieve from the stored plurality of medical images, wherein the set of acquisition time control settings are selected by the user by manipulating the same at least one acquisition time control of the user interface that was manipulated in the process of acquiring the at least one medical image, and wherein the selected set of acquisition time control settings are at least some of the same settings used to acquire the at least one medical image. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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